by Herman Melville · Barnes & Noble · tapa dura · ISBN 9781566193566
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«Moby-Dick» is the novel by Herman Melville, published by Barnes & Noble in hardcover (479 pages, in English).
The whaling ship Pequod, captained by Ahab, obsessively pursues the great white whale that had already marked him. The expedition turns destructive for the crew, and Melville combines maritime adventure with reflections on revenge, fate, and the power of nature.
The work was originally published in 1851 as «Moby-Dick; or, The Whale»; this Barnes & Noble Classics edition is from 1993.
Recommended for readers of classics of world literature and of maritime adventure novels.
Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.
